· Private foundation
The Good Shepherd's Heart Ministry
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k46 grants · $169k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $281k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIVING WELL PREGNANCY CENTER | $30,500 |
| PRINCIPLE BASED LEADERSHIP (CORE 300) | $22,000 |
| DWELLING PLACE ANAHEIM | $20,000 |
| SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE | $20,000 |
| LAST IS FIRST PHILANTHROPIES | $19,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| HOMEFRONT AMERICA | $15,949 |
| WHOLE HEART INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| OPERATION HELO | $15,000 |
| FIRST LOVE MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,761 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,677 |
| AND INITIATIVES | $12,500 |
| CAMP ALANDALE | $11,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
25 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SFSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $59k · revenue +2%
- LILast is First Philanthropies2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +265%
- R1RESCUE 1 GLOBAL2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- LWLIVING WELL PREGNANCY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $26k
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC DBA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $23k
- MEMISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONALone grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +24%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
To be an organization where people are excited to assist in the love and care of the orphan and those in foster care, as well as providing temporary housing and training for those in the worldwide missionary field.
Evangelizing the lost through gospel crusades, camps and conferences; Empowering orphans and widows and those in need through Christ-centered vocational training; and Equipping ministers of the gospel through Christian seminars and…
It is the mission, purpose, duty, and vision of LOVE MERCY INTERNATIONAL to meet the physical, mental, and spiritual needs of persons in distress internationally and locally.
The mission of Selah International Counseling Ministries is to glorify God as we serve and equip His church, providing leadership and service through counseling, counseling resources, and counseling training.
SOS provides assistance to poor and marginalized people in the USA & other countries. SOS feeds the hungry, drills water wells, contributes to schools and operates an orphanage. SOS also rescues and rehabilitates victims of sex trafficking.
To reach people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Reaching Out To The Nations' mission is to both preach and demonstrate the love of Go through its projects and programs which include preaching, food distribution, widow and orphan assistance and leadership training.
To give the gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to the poor and dejected of the world. We do this by caring for widows, orphans, and broken people around the world. We care for hem by feeding, clothing, and encouraging them in Jesus by His…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Parkway Ford Heritage Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 18% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 101 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGWELL PREGNANCY CENTERS ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALANDALE ↗
- Who funds Last is First Philanthropies ↗
- Who funds CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Whole Heart International ↗
- Who funds RESCUE 1 GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds MISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HELO INC ↗
- Who funds TUCKER'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds EQUIPNET ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds Oasis Sanctuaries Inc ↗
- Who funds Living Free Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CRY CHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Giving University · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Good Shepherd's Heart Ministry funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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